Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals

• Description: The Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) was founded in January 1995 as an initiative of the Institute of Phonetics at the University of Munich, Germany. The BAS will develop, validate, administrate and disseminate corpora of spoken German to the speech community as well as to speech engineering industry. Presently the following German speech corpora are available on ISO 9660 CDROM:

  Siemens 1000 - SI1000

  5 CDROMs, newspaper corpus, read speech, 10 speakers x 1000 utterances

  Siemens 100 - SI100

  7 CDROMs, read speech, 101 speakers x 100 sentences

  PhonDat 1 - PD1

  6 CDROMs, new edition in preparation, read speech, 201 speakers x 450+ sentences

  PhonDat 2 - PD2

  1 CDROM, read speech, 2nd edition, 16 speakers x 200 sentences, various labelled information

  Verbmobil

  Spontaneous speech recorded in a dialog task (appointment scheduling). More information on the VERBMOBIL project: http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/verbmobil/

  Corpora in Preparation

  PhonDat I - PD1: 2nd extended edition (Jul 1995)

  Strange Corpora - SC

  Reference Corpora that reflect certain well known problems in speech processing, like accents, repair, breaks, hesitations, repetitions, extreme F0, backround noise, pathological speech, speaker adaptation. The first SC corpus (SC1 Accents) will be edited in Jul 1995.

  BAS Edition of Verbmobil Corpora - VM: 2nd extended edition

  Articulatory data - AD: EMA data of speakers of SI1000 corpus

  ERBA: 10000 utterances from a train inquiry task

• Misc: BAS is currently developing tools for the automatic annotation and segmentation of very large speech corpora. This includes the automatic detection of variants of pronunciation, a statistical based alignment and a rule-based refinement of the outcome. The BAS seeks to cooperate with public institutions as well as with industrial partners to further develop new German speech databases. BAS can be a platform to re-distribute existing German speech.
• Contact and More Information: The BAS is located at the University of Munich, Germany.
  BAS c/o Institut fuer Phonetik
  Schellingstr. 3/II
  80799 Muenchen, Germany
  Ph: +49-89-21802758, Fax: +49-89-2800362
  Email: bas@sun1.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
  WWW: http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/BASSeng.html

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